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Wednesday, 13 January 2010

That's a lot of pumpkin!

Posted by Rosie

Yesterday, when I went to check on the stored pumpkins, I noticed that the very top of the 2 rather large green pumpkins were starting to go soft - time to get cooking or lose them. So I bought in the smaller of the two and have been busy cooking today. So far I have made a large batch of pumpkin cookies (ably assisted by Ben) and a vast vat pumpkin soup (nice and warming for lunch) plus we had roasted pumpkin with dinner last night. That only only used up just over half of this 10Kg monster and I still have the rest PLUS the other LARGER one to go. Luckily we all like pumpkin.

Tomorrow I'll make some filo pumpkin parcels and I have a lovely recipe for pumpkin and sweet potato stew. I have also found, once cooked and mashed, it freezes, which is just as well bearing in mind how much I have. That said there will be no more coming out of the garden for many months so a stash in the freezer won't get wasted. And the pigs are happy - they get the skin and seeds which they love.

So - how do you like your pumpkin? All recipe ideas greatfully recieved.

One of our favourites is a pumpkin or butternut squash and sweetcorn casserole. Roast the pumpkin and sweetcorn, then mix with coconut milk, chopped chiles to taste, salt, pepper, and ground coriander. Put in the casserole, top with bread crumbs, and bake until toasty and golden.

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Rosie is a mum, smallholder, gite owner and writer who lives in Normandy, France with her husband, 2 sons, a dog, 4 cats and quite a few farm animals (but no hippos). She has a degree in Agriculture and Environmental Science and a passion for helping everyone become that bit greener. She hopes to show you how you can make simple changes that together will make a big difference to our beautiful world and make it a better place for our children.
Rosie has been blogging since 2008 and has now relaunched her blog as A Green and Rosie Life. When she is not tending animals, children, the garden or gite guests she enjoys walking, a good TV drama, eating chocolate and dreaming of the day she can own a hippo. She does not do DIY and detests the taste of avocados.